Rep. Newhouse to Tour Yucca Mountain

Press Release

Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement about his participation in a bipartisan congressional visit to the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain on April 9. Led by House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on the Environment and the Economy Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), this exploratory trip continues congressional oversight of the administration's termination of the project and will help inform Congress' efforts to establish a workable, long-term nuclear waste solution. Reps. Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Bob Latta (R-OH), Cresent Hardy (R-NV), and Mark Amodei (R-NV) will also join the tour.

"I look forward to this congressional oversight tour focused on continuing Yucca Mountain, which remains the sole permanent repository for the nation's nuclear waste under the law," said Rep. Newhouse. "After decades of work and billions of taxpayer dollars, Hanford cleanup and efforts to expand nuclear power depend on the completion of Yucca as part of the nation's solution for nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel."

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